So let's read our text together. 1 Corinthians chapter 15. The Apostle Paul says this in verse number 3. Let's go back to verse 1. There's only two verses and I'm starting early. Some moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received and wherein you stand. That's quite a good testimony, isn't it? Don't you think that he's saying this about them? That's where you stand at. By which also you're saved. Another good testimony. If you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain. Have you ever heard somebody say they got out of church? Anybody ever heard folks say they got out of church for some crazy reason. They got out and they said they never believed it anyway. I've heard people say that. I've heard people say, well, I never did really believe. What a shame. But there's one problem with that. I don't believe it. That's the crutch they lean on because now they've gotten out of church, they're living in a hog pen, and they're just saying, I never really did do all that and I didn't believe it. Yes, they did. The problem is, The excuse they're using, it ain't going to fly with God. It ain't going... He ain't going to accept that. So let's look on. Verse 3, For I delivered unto you first of all that which I received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. And they were seen of Cephas, then of the twelve. After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remained under this present, but some had fallen asleep. They died. After that, he was seen of James, then of all the apostles. And last of all, he was seen of me. Paul would have wanted to let us know. I'm going on the testimony of a lot of people that said they saw him, but I want you to know I did too. I did too. He said, last of all, he was seen of me as of one born out of due time. He was an apostle, the apostle to the Gentiles. He wasn't one of the twelve that was chosen. But he was a great man of God that God used. Father, I pray you'd help us for a few minutes, Lord. God, just give us what you want us to have and help us, Lord, to brag on you. Help us, Lord, to encourage the saints and to help folk. God, just leave here tonight saying, I'm glad I got to come to church. And Lord, I love coming to church. And Lord, I love this church. And I'm thankful that you let us come here. And God, that you give us a place. And God, you give us brothers and sisters. And Lord, we just want to thank you tonight for letting us be here one more time. And God, when we leave here tonight, Lord, I pray that our heart will long for Sunday morning to get to come back one more time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. Have your way now in Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. And amen. Amen. I want to preach. I just want to preach on the gospel. This is The Gospel. The death, the burial, and the resurrection. You know you can't go wrong preaching on the Gospel. You preach on the Gospel, nobody can leave here saying, that preacher was preaching on my sin. Of course, if the preacher did preach on your sin, you should be thankful that God gave him a message to get you back on track. It's not like the preacher takes joy in preaching on sin when you could be preaching on something that makes everybody just want to shout? It's not something that, well, there may be some preachers that would enjoy that. I don't. Let me say this. I don't. But I do know this. I do know that from time to time, Brother Jeff, we've got to preach on sin. If you don't know it, I was listening to a man talk today, and he was asking me did I know certain preacher, I said, I don't know him. And he said, I thought you might know him. I said, no sir, no sir. North Carolina, didn't recognize his name. He said, man, I'm telling you. He said, every message he gets up there, he will skin your hide. He said, he preaches so hard on sin. I said, no, don't know him. I don't know that I want to know him, but... Listen, I know, I know. I've been forewarned. In this flesh dwelleth no good thing. I know I need to be reminded of things that are out there that can take me out there. Literally, lift me up out of the pews of this church building and take me out there never to return again. That's the kind of sin that's out there. And I need to be warned. You need to be warned. You need to be warned. Our young folk need to be warned. Young people need to be warned. School started back this week. I pray for them. I pray that all goes well. I pray God puts a hedge above them and keeps them safe. You know what? There's going to be people there that are bringing baggage from the house. And it's not that you come in here and say, well, I'm just going to preach on whatever sin they might take to school, whatever it is. Maybe, maybe somebody, maybe somebody here might have a son or a daughter that don't know how to warn their children about spiritual warfare. Maybe. I would be thankful. I would be appreciative that preachers stand up and say, hey, I'm going to tell you kids, better watch out. You better watch out. Don't let the things of this world grab your mind and pull you out there Don't let the people that you go to school with grab your minds and entertain you with a fun lust of the world. Listen, we say it for the young people, because we've got young people sitting on the front row and on the second row, and I'm thankful, and all over in the church. But listen, mom and daddy, those kids are going to do what you let them do. Just an example, just an example. if you take them home tonight and get up early in the morning and say I want you to stay home because I know how much you enjoy to rake leaves and I'm just gonna let you stay home and rake all day long there's plenty and just enjoy yourself well I mean they may be bitter for just a short period of time but when they realize that only when they get done with that instruction will they be able to quit? And I know that's being facetious, but I would rather teach them something like that than to teach them it's okay to sit in front of a TV for eight hours at a time and never move nothing but two thumbs. I personally can't handle that. That's what old people think. They can't handle that. It's not competition. It's not exercise. And I believe the devil is in that stuff. I really do. I believe the devil is captivating their minds and just drawing them out of reality, Brother Leo. That's why they can play games. And I'm not saying nobody here does this. They can play games where they kill people all the time and it don't bother them no more. Their conscience is being seared. Say, what do you do about stuff like that? Get rid of it. They're not going to play a game. Get them a ball game. Get them something competitive. Something to teach them how to progress. Don't make them a mass murderer for Wal-Mart. Let's look. Let's look. Let's go to the Gospel. Let's go to the Gospel. We're preaching it. Verse number 3 said, For I delivered unto you first of all that which I received, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures. First thing we want to look at is the cross. At the cross. At the cross. That's where I first saw the light. At the cross. You know what was at the cross? We just read this starting in verse number 5 of how people witnessed what took place at the cross. Uh, Kristen sent me a... Kristen sent...somebody sent me one. It might have been Jeremy, I don't know who it was. Sent me a picture Monday morning, school started, and the school right across from there, road over there. Early in the morning, not even 8 o'clock yet, someone runs into a bicycle with a car, and then runs into a car, and then was fixing to run into a group of people. 8...before 8 o'clock in the morning, because of being intoxicated. Am I right? Because you wonder why I hate alcohol. I promise you this. Hey, anybody that believes it's okay to drink alcohol, if that would have been one of their children and they've died, they would have wanted to join MADD. Anybody know what that is? Mothers against drunk drivers. All the people that... I'm saying that's how life starts out for people. Here's what I like. The witness, the testimony that I got was a picture of somebody walking along with his brand new bracelets on. Behind his back. Hooked together. With, yes, yes, yes. And then a personal escort. I said, thank you, Lord. I pray they never drive again. Next time, it might be your son. Next time, it might be your daughter. I'm just saying, you know what we've got to do? If we can ever get people to the cross, that kind of stuff changes. That kind of stuff changes. You think about what we've seen right there, all these, verse 5, verse 6, verse 7, verse 8, has to do with testimonies of people that saw Christ alive after the cross. This is testimonies of people. You know there's one of the sayings that goes on that people really, they push this, you may have never heard this, But they believe, there's people that literally believe that Jesus Christ was so weary in everything building up to the cross, whether it was the scourging, whether it was carrying the cross, whether it was the beating of that cat of nine tails, whatever it was. You know there's people that believe that He literally just fainted, He didn't die. And they think that when they buried Him in that tomb, After he got rest, he revived and got out. He got out. Well, you know, people are going to believe what they want to. But I literally love to have witnesses. That's why we got them right here. Brother Glenn, we got witnesses right here. Matter of fact, one group of the witnesses, he said was above 500. That's a pretty good group of witnesses right there. Would you think that would hold up in a court of law? Absolutely. Absolutely. And so, you know, they believe what they want to, but it don't make no difference. It don't make no difference what they believe. Chapter 27 of the book of Matthew, the Bible says this, that he died. He died. Luke chapter 27 and verse number 50, the Bible said he died. Now, I'm paraphrasing. It said it a different way. But he gave up the ghost is what it says. I'm saying, if you go to the cross, you'll see a man that was punished, you'll see a man that was persecuted, you'll see a man that was picked out of a crowd, and because of what he taught, and because of who he said he was, and they crucified him, and they killed him, and he died on the cross. On the cross. You go to the cross, you've got to see one of the most bloody events that ever took place. Isaiah chapter 53, we'll go to it in just a minute. Isaiah chapter 53, it starts out, it says, so 52 says, his vestige was marred more than any man. I've heard people talk about people getting in accidents and how it just mangled them up and they tore all the pieces. and all kind of different situations where people have passed away. But when the Bible says there wasn't nobody ever looked like what he looked like when they got done with him, I'm afraid TV has desensitized us with it. All we think of is that he got it across the back. And we think there's nothing bloody about his chest or his stomach or his face or his arms or his legs, but I'm telling you, I'm standing here tonight, Brother Darnell, and I believe this with all my heart, I believe that on every inch of his body, His skin was ripped apart and tore apart. I mean, I don't believe there was nothing left that wasn't bloody. I believe that he was so marred that nobody could ever envision it. And I'm telling you tonight, he did that for me and he did that for you. That's why we have to go to the cross. That's why we have to be reminded, this is what Jesus did for me. I've got to be reminded. I've got to be reminded. Somebody will come along and make a movie, and it won't be hardly nothing to it. It might be a good movie. I saw that movie, The Passion of Christ. I saw that movie, and yes, I liked it. Literally, I watched it at my house. It moved me. I watched it at my house. I was sitting there with tears running down my face. Not because of what I saw on TV, but because of what I read in the Bible, and because of what I know in my heart, and it took place at the cross of Calvary. Oh my goodness, I'm telling you, that's why we have to be reminded, lest we forget. Lest we forget. Let me turn over here to Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 53. The Bible says this in verse number one, the Bible says, Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form to come to us, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. How many has ever seen a movie with Christ, a picture with Jesus Christ? The person that was portraying Christ was always a handsome man. Number one, that's against the Bible. That's against it right there. The Bible says there's no beauty that we should desire him. Verse three, the Bible said he's despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our grief and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him not, smitten of God and afflicted. Verse 5, it says, But he was wounded for our transgression. He was bruised for our iniquities and chastisement. Our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. The Bible said, Oh, we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. The Lord, the Lord hath laid on him, Jehovah God hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed. and afflicted, and he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughters of the sheep before he shears his tongue. So he opened not his mouth. He was taken from prison in judgment. And who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living." Listen, Isaiah is writing, listen to this right here, because Hey, so many times we hear this. This stuff is not for Jews no more. You better hear what Isaiah, one of the greatest prophets of the Bible that you will ever read from. Here's what he said. Because he hath done no violence. No, no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Back in verse number 8. He says, for he was cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression of my people was he smitten. You know what he went through? He went through what he went through for Jews. That's why God ain't done with them. That's why God ain't done with them. That's why there's going to be another day for the nation of Israel. And they're going to get a chance and they're going to get an opportunity and they're going to go back. And they're going to stay wherever they're going to be at. And they're going to be told, you better flee to the mountains. You better get to Judea. And those that live and those that obey God then, a lot of them, a lot of them, listen, here's what they're going to do. Listen to me now. They're going to go back to their land. And when they go back, they're going to be told, you better flee to Judea. You better get to the mountains. How many of you have ever read that verse over? That he that endures to the end shall be saved. Those that flee into the mountains, those that hide for their life, those that can make it for three and a half years, they're going to live and they're going to go right straight into the millennium. Okay? Now, them that don't, they're going to be a group of them by the blend. You've read this, I know. They're going to be a bunch of them that they're going to say, nope, we left our home place one time, we ain't leaving again. Nope. This is our home. This is my house. I ain't leaving again. You know what's going to happen to them? They're going to kill them all. Whenever Hitler started initiating that gas chamber and everything, that'll be nothing. That will be nothing. You said that was 6 million Jews that he killed. That will be nothing compared to what's going to happen in that Great Tribulation. It is going to be so horrific. Can I tell you something good news? Anybody need some good news right here, right now? Right now? Right now? Right now? I ain't going to be here. And it ain't because I'm dying of old age, hallelujah. Amen. I just ain't going to be in here. Amen. Now, I'll finish reading this right here. I read that right there. Okay. I want you to know, we look at the cross. I want you to look at something back over here in 1 Corinthians chapter 15. And let's look at the cemetery. The cemeteries are unusual. in the fact that most of the time, most of us have memories there. Every one of us has got a loved one that's gone home, either hopefully to be with the Lord. Let's say it like that. And you can, from time to time, you can go back to that cemetery and over just a few moments, your mind is flooded with good memories. of someone you love so much. I mean, all bad things don't take place at the cemetery. In our mind, the cemetery is a place where we feel like it's a cold place. It's a deserted place. It's a lonely place. If there's anything I don't like, I don't like it. This is just me. This is just me. I don't like going to funerals in the wintertime. Has anybody ever thought about that besides me? I don't like going to funerals in the wintertime. I don't, Brother Justin, I don't like this thought. And I know, hear me, please don't, y'all are going to think I'm crazy now. And somebody will say Amen right there. But I know, please don't, don't say amen right there. I know whenever my body's laying right here, when my body's laying right here, that's just the shell of a person. That's just a shell. That soul has went home to be with the Lord. I mean, I've heard people say, I'm going to dance with Jesus, and I'm going to praise the Lord, and I'm going to kneel. I've heard all kinds of stuff. This one thing I know, when I get there, I won't be here. We've just about, we've let people talk us into our Christianity being so deep, we have not been able to enjoy the blessings. It's become a big argument of, who cares? When I die, I'm going to heaven. Amen. You can fuss over the property line right there where your neighbor's fence is looking like it might be an inch too far, or your car that the kids is wanting. Oh, whoa. You didn't see that. Look, I just. Oh, never mind. I'll move on. I'll move on. But the wintertime. To think about. That loved one being left in the cold. You know, it didn't bother nobody about Jesus. As a matter of fact, Joseph. Nicodemus. Some of them women, they come along there, and they, like I said, they begged the body of Jesus. Remember, you remember reading that? They begged, that's what's there. They begged the body of Jesus. They wanted to give Him a burial. And they did. And then, and then they put Him in a borrowed tomb. This is off of the cemetery. And then, and then, they was, they was a group that was worried about somebody would steal Him because they'd heard that He'd rise on the third day, and, and, and, They sealed it. And whenever they sealed it, obviously nobody can get in. And their thoughts is nobody can get out. But you know what they didn't know? They didn't know on the other side of that rock was the Rock of Ages. What they didn't know was the One that created that rock. You better watch out right here now. The one that created that rock was on the other side of that rock. So if he's on the inside or the outside, it'd make no difference to him but nothing. All he had to do was speak to it. He'd make it move out of the way. That might have been how it got moved. He might have just said, get out of the way. I'm leaving this place. I mean, everything happens out at the cemetery. You know, just this past week, was down there with Brother Patterson's family. And, uh... I'm sure they'll be going back. I'm sure they'll be. Sister Ashley, I'm sure you'll go back. Can I tell you this? It's okay. Little Tracy, it's okay. If you need to, you go back as much as you need to. In any other case, it's Vanessa. It's okay. When my dad died, it would come time to do the burying over Bethel Cemetery, over in Twin Calhoun. Here, you know where it's at. It had rained so much, they could not bury my dad. That place is a sand hill, Brother Leroy. You've been there. It's a sand They dig it out, try to dig out, and the sides would just cave in. And the man that owns the funeral home, he told me, he said, Brother Edward, he said, we're going to have to take your dad back to the funeral home. He said, we can't bury nobody like this. You see, they can have problems down at the cemetery. It's not uncommon to have problems. I seem to want to put a grave somewhere, and there'd be a big oak tree right beside it. That's a problem. That's something in the way. But the bottom line is, when Christ was buried, He was put in a tomb that He didn't own, per se, as a citizen of a country. It was a borrowed tomb, because He wasn't going to be there long. He just needed it. Three days, that's all he needed. Three days is all he needed it. And I'll tell you this. I'm going to say it again. I'm not trying to put salt in your wound. I love you and I'd help you any way I could. Y'all know that. I've been back. I've been back and I just stood there and all I saw was my dad's name. and a place for Mama's name, but she refuses to die. I hope I have that kind of DNA in me. I don't know if that's the right term to use right there. I hope I have longevity, let me say longevity in my life. How about that? Amen. I've just, I've walked back. Hey, I stood, I stood there and looked at his, right beside him, right beside him. Two little old baby boys over there. I was out at her house the other day, and I walked by a little old spot over there to the side over there. Little old baby girl over there. I'm telling you, there's some things that goes on at the cemetery that just... You know what it does? You know what a cemetery will do? I haven't thought about that until now, but you know what cemeteries do? It'll get you off your high horse. It'll knock all that pride stuff out of your way. Huh? Oh, that wouldn't have ever happened to me. For real? For real? I don't know of a family nowhere in the world that hadn't been affected by it. I've seen some get bitter. I've seen some people get mad. But if they were Christians, And they had that hope and that assurance that one day they'd get up out of that grave. One day. I'm talking about the cemetery. One day, our Savior is calling us home. Oh, what a blessed day. Off in the cemetery. We see the cross and we see the cemetery. But can I show you? Brother Leo, he's about to jump out there about to preach my message for me while I go. I want to show you what took place on the calendar. The calendar is mentioned. Right here in this text. Chapter number 15 and verse number 4. That he was buried and that he arose again the third day. You say, that ain't a calendar. Well, today is the third day of this month. My watch says 3. It's the third day. of August. There's something to that. There's something to that. I got to look at... I got to look at this. There's a whole lot more about the third day in the Bible than what we even realize. Do you know whenever... How many of y'all remember whenever Abraham... God told Abraham, He said, take our son, the only son Isaac, and take him up to a mountain. I'll show you. And I want you to offer him a sacrifice there. They traveled. They went. He obeyed God. And the Bible says this. After he traveled a distance and on the third day, he lifted up his head and saw that place far off on the third day. Not the second day, not the fourth day, but the third day. You know what he's doing? He's seeing something that's going to take place in a place. There's something going to take place at that place over there that he don't even know what it is. In his mind, he's thinking, man, this is going to be bad. In his mind, he's thinking, me and my boy are going on the last trip together. In his mind, he's thinking, I'm going to go to a place and I've got to take his life. And he don't even know that there he is on the third day. He is going to look up and see that place. And over there in that place is a place where him and his boy are going to walk back down the mountain from. He ain't even thinking about that. I'm just saying it. In the Bible, it talks about... Did you know in the third day, in Genesis chapter 42, it was the third day, the third day whenever Joseph's in charge, and his brothers come in there, and they come to him, and on the third day, he's telling them, he says, I'll tell you what you'll do. I want you to send somebody back. And I want you to take the corn, the grain, to your father. Why is it he's talking to them Specifically, they don't even know who he is, but they'll know him on the third day. The Bible says that Jonah was in the belly of a whale three days. I mean, they say something to it. I don't know. Joshua, chapter number two, I know you've read it. I'm telling you, listen, do you realize that here's a woman and she's called the harlot in the Bible? Now, a woman in here would want your husband to go looking for a job or serving the Lord and go out in these kind of conditions to have to be put in a position like this. The Bible says, read it, chapter number 2, Joshua chapter number 2. You read this and she goes there and she puts them up and they spend the night at her place. You know who they were? They were the men of God. You know who she was? She was a harlot. But you know what's been happening? God's been dealing with her heart. Man. Man. You know, you can tell. You want to know something about somebody. Look here. You want to know something really. You want to know how spiritual they are. Listen to their conversation. I mean, you just listen to them talk. And sooner or later, sooner or later, evidence of what they're all about is going to come out. It might not seem like much to start with, but you get to pondering over the things that's been said. Oh my goodness. We went up yesterday and got both Jody to work on the truck and got it fixed. I'm praising the Lord it's fixed for now. And I say that because you know it can easily break again tomorrow. But you know what? We sat up there and we laughed and we had a good time. And we got in the house in there and we just got to talking about the Bible. Did we do it? I mean, just talking about God, and talking about Scripture, and talking about a message, and you know what we're doing? We're fellowshipping. The Spirit of God bear witness one with another. Just talking about the Lord. Just talking about the Lord. Just talking about the things of God. Let me turn over there. Let me turn over there. I'm going to miss something if I don't. I'm going to miss something if I don't. It's going to be so important to see this. In Joshua chapter number 2, the Bible said at the end of verse 1, it said they went and came into a harlot's house named Rahab and lodged there. Well, if anybody from this day and hour Would've come home. Honey, you'll never guess where we stayed this weekend. I can already see some of you ladies got fire in your eyes right now. Y'all kill that rascal I'm telling you right now. You might as well go and get that one little tea bag of a suitcase you got and pack yourself up and see if she's still got a door open for you. Huh? Am I right? Somebody say amen. Hey, I'm talking about the third day. I'm talking about the third day. The Bible talks about how that she warned them. Man, she said, y'all got to go. Y'all got to get out of here. They're going to kill you. She let them down. She let them down through that cord. And then, verse 15, she let them down through the cord, through the window of the house. And told them to get up. Verse 16. Verse 16. Are you there? Say Amen. Verse 16. And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain. Who else was told to go to the mountain? In the tribulation, the Jews are being told to go to the mountain. Go to Judea. Ok. Now, she said this. She said, verse 16. She said unto them, Get you to the mountain. The pursuers meet you and hide yourselves there three days. until the pursuers be returned, and afterwards may ye go your way." You know what they did? They did it! They are taking instruction from a woman in the Bible that is known as a harlot. But there's got to be a reason. There's got to be a reason. Why would you listen to somebody like that? I believe we can find it in the Bible, don't you? Let's see, let's see what, let's see what she thinks. Let's see what, let's see what is in her heart. Before we do, before we do, real quick, real quick. And they went, verse 1, and they went and came into an harlot's house named Rahab. But something happened. You know, they might be somebody you know that used to be a drunk. Somebody you know might used to been a dope addict. Well, I don't know. But you know, it's possible that they could be folk in here that fit those titles. End days gone by. Don't nobody be discouraged because you ain't moving upwards. I forgot to cut my phone off. I'm sorry. You know it's possible, all the sin that's mentioned in the Bible, how likely is it that every sin that mentions somebody in here could have fit that title? I mean, is it not possible? I mean, even... I know most people don't want to... Even... Are you listening? Can you hear me? Even a harlot. Even a harlot. I'm not asking for a testimony. Don't want to hear no such as that. I've been in churches where people testified about things like that. And in my heart, I just, to be honest with you, I kind of wished that they would not have. But, if there was somebody here that was like that one time, look at you now. In church on Wednesday night. Look at you now. Coming to church on Sunday morning. Going to bring a big pot of something that tastes good. Look at you now. Tithing. Supporting missionaries. Old drunk. Look at you now. Standing up preaching the gospel. But you thought that God couldn't ever use you. What you didn't know was how powerful and how gracious and how good our God is. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I know just for the sake of knowing who she is, the Bible calls her Rahab the harlot. Doesn't confuse her with another different Rahab. And I don't know that I've read about her being anybody else being named that a lot of times. But I got a verse right here that just lets me see. What it is that makes her so special and God want to use her. The Bible says this in verse number 11. And as soon as we had heard these things, our heart did melt. Neither did there remain any more courage in any man because of you for the Lord your God. He is God. That's what that's what she said. She said, for the Lord your God, He is God. He is God in heaven above and in earth beneath. Now, therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord. She ain't just using... Hey! Hey! She ain't using the Lord's name in vain like we do. You look at that in your Bible right there. That's a capital L, capital O, capital... That's Jehovah God. That's the God of the Hebrew. That's Jehovah God. She said, she said, now therefore I pray you swear unto me by the Lord, since I have showed you kindness, that you will also show kindness unto my father's house and give me a true token. I'll tell you what she was. That third day, that third day was really important to her. You know what, that third day for Abraham was really important to him. That third day for Jonah. I promise you that was an important day for him. To get out of that fish's belly. And I'm going to tell you something else. For me and you, looking on that calendar, seeing that third day, that's very important to us. Old songwriter. Songwriter said it like this. Up from the grave, he rose. Got a little bit too high right there. But anyway, y'all know what I mean. With a mighty triumph for His foes. He arose a victor from the dark domain. And He lives forever with His saints to reign. He arose. He arose. Hallelujah. Christ arose on the third day. From the cross, to the cemetery, to the calendar. we can find comfort because He arose. Amen. Let's all stand together. Amen. Father, thank You for this time. Lord, we love You. Pray, Lord, that if You would, that You would just take these words that's been said, Lord, and I pray, God, that it will encourage the saints and help somebody. And, Lord, I pray, God, that You're pleased. You're pleased. Bless the work of this church and the labor of this church. Pray that you'll continue to send folk in like you have been. And Lord, on Sunday morning, I pray, God, you send folk in. And I pray that, God, that we'll come together and people just bring food and we'll fellowship. And God, just have a great day in Jesus Christ. All because of the gospel. All because of the gospel. Death, burial, and thank God the good resurrection of Jesus Christ. Thank you, Lord. Well, thank you for what you're doing. Jesus name I pray. Amen. Let me say this. I did not finish when I...